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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Lo-ruhamah (Woman living at the time of Divided Monarchy)
"Not pitied." Hosea's daughter carried the name as a sign that God would stop showing mercy to the northern kingdom, and when Hosea 2:23 turns it to "loved," Paul hears in it the Gentiles brought in.
"Not pitied." Hosea's daughter carried the name as a sign that God would stop showing mercy to the northern kingdom, and when Hosea 2:23 turns it to "loved," Paul hears in it the Gentiles brought in.
Lo-ruhamah, meaning “not pitied” or “not loved,” was the symbolic name God commanded the prophet Hosea to give his daughter, signifying that God would no longer show mercy to the northern kingdom of Israel (Hosea 1:6-8). The name's reversal in Hosea 2:23, where God promises to call her “loved,” became a picture of future restoration that Paul later applies to the inclusion of Gentiles (Romans 9:25).
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- Hosea 1:6
- Hosea 1:8
